Avicenna A.K.A Ibn Sina Peak BYMOHAMMED MUSTAFA AZZIPKHAN

The Father of Modern Medicine

Title:Sharaf al-Mulk, Hujjat al-Haq, Sheikh al-RayeesBirth: approximately 980 CE / 370 AHDeath: 1037 CE / 428 AHEthnicity: Persian Region: Central Asia and PersiaBorn: In Persia Bukhara Province

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The Man of the HourAvicenna (Greek A), was a Persian polymath and the foremost physician and philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, logician, paleontologist, mathematician, physicist, poet, psychologist, scientist, soldier, statesman, and teacher.

Main InterestsIslamic medicine Alchemychemistry in Islam Islamic astronomy Islamic ethics early Islamic philosophy Islamic studies logic in Islamic philosophy geography mathematics Islamic psychological thought physics Persian poetry science Kalam Paleontologist

Success Ibn Sn wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving treatises concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine

Cont. of SuccessHis most famous works are The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and The Canon of Medicine.His books, which is a standard medical text at many Islamic and European universities. The Canon of Medicine was used as a text-book in the universities of Montpellier and Louvain as late as 1650

A Few of his DiscoveriesMedicine and Pharmacology

The introduction of:

infectious diseasesquarantine to limit the spread of contagious diseases, experimental medicine evidence-based medicine clinical trialsrandomized controlled trials clinical pharmacologyneuropsychiatry risk factor analysis, dietetics tuberculosis diabetes heart as a valve And the influence of climate and environment on health. momentum aromatherapy steam distillation extraction of essential oilsuniformitarianism and law of superposition in geology modern clinical trials

Cont. Discoveries The Canon of Medicine, 14-volume which was a standard medical text in Europe and the Islamic world up until the 18th century

A Latin copy of the Canon of Medicine, dated 1484, located at the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

dated 1593

Psychophysiology and Psychosomatic medicine Recognized 'physiological psychology' in the treatment of illnesses involving emotions, and developed a system for associating changes in the pulse rate with inner feelingsAvicenna is reported to have treated a very ill patient by "feeling the patient's pulse and reciting aloud to him the names of provinces, districts, towns, streets, and people." He noticed how the patient's pulse increased when certain names were mentioned, from which Avicenna deduced that the patient was in love with a girl whose home Avicenna was "able to locate by the digital examination." Avicenna advised the patient to marry the girl he is in love with, and the patient soon recovered from his illness after his marriage.

RewardAn Emir rewarded him for his services.

To the access of the royal library of the Samanids, well-known patrons of scholarship and scholars. When the library was destroyed by fire not long after, the enemies of Ibn Sina accused him of burning it

EngineeringEncyclopedia Mi'yar al-'aql (The Measure of the Mind)Science of ingenious devices:simple machines

lever pulley screw wedge, windlass

Later lifeThe remaining ten or twelve years of Ibn Sn's life were spent in the service of Abu Ja'far 'Ala Addaula, whom he accompanied as physician and general literary and scientific adviser, even in his numerous campaigns.Literary matters and philology

"I prefer a short life with width to a narrow one with length".

DeathHe died in June 1037, in his fifty-eighth year, and was buried in Hamedan, Iran

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